The mother of a Venezuelan soldier who was killed when U.S. forces swept into Caracas earlier this month to capture the country’s deposed president, Nicolas Maduro, has revealed the chilling final words he spoke to her.
“I love you. It has begun,” Saul Pereira Martinez, 18, said on the phone call with his mother, Natividad Martinez, 38, at around 2 a.m. on January 3 as fire and billowing smoke from U.S. air strikes lit up the night sky over the capital city.
